PlayStation Blogcast 50: Sportsfriends Forever

Today’s very special episode of PlayStation Blogcast is one for the history books! We kick things off with Third-Party Developer and Publisher Relations Vice President Adam Boyes, who joins us to discuss newly announced PSN Pub Fund title Sportsfriends (now open for pre-orders on Kickstarter). Then we delve into next week’s PSN new releases, headlined by a pair of Call of Duty titles and an out-of-this-world new PS3 simulation.

Then we answer a slew of your Listener Queries and Player Tips, discuss what we’re playing (The Unfinished Swan!), and say goodbye to a close friend of the family. Take it from me: This week’s show is one you won’t want to miss!

I want to personally thank each and every one of you for making PlayStation Blogcast a bonafide success story! I remember our first show like it was yesterday, and I am mildly stunned we made it this far. Thanks again for your support, and definitely keep an eye peeled for next week’s show — we’ve got some big things planned!

Comments

I’m going to start listening now but re: the Kickstarter plea yesterday, well it seemed pretty odd. First time I’ve seen this on the blog. If this was for Giant Sparrow’s next game I’d jump in. But that video yesterday looked like high school projects, sorry.

Wasn’t meant to be a plea, just an encouragement to support something we think is very cool if you also think it’s cool. The games are indeed visually simple, but that’s part of the beauty when you play them. I’d encourage you to watch the individual game videos on the Kickstarter page to get a better sense of them. Literally four of my favorite games ever.

The thing that bugs me about Jeff’s indifference about spoiling AC Brotherhood is that there’s a very good reason why people would be trying to get through prior AC games with AC3 coming soon/out now, so it’s a bit disrespectful to just blatantly spoil stuff like there should be no reason that anybody is playing 2, Brotherhood, or Revelations before getting into 3.

I’m generally okay with the Spoiler Statute of Limitations, but I don’t think it’s a valid excuse when there’s a reason for people to playing prior games in a series. All it takes is a simple warning and Jeff would’ve been fine to say whatever.

Is there gonna be a more revealing trailer for Unfinished Swan? I just downloaded and beat Journey, and I can’t say enough great things about it. I love it. But if Unfinished Swan is anything like that, I’d like to see more before I buy it. I found the trailer was pretty vague, and didn’t show much. Or maybe they should make it free for plus members. I’d love to try it out.

Honestly one of the best things about Unfinished Swan is going in having seen nothing beyond the mechanic of the first level. That’s how it was for me anyway; can’t recommend it enough, and the less you know the better.

i use to listen to the blog to about episode 40 , now i don’t even bother listening to it , i don’t know it became boring , it s not like you gonna talk real issue , like man ps plus sucked last month or yea that game is so boring don’t even bother buying it.

Oh wow! Is that your old picture from your old 1up days Nick? I think I remember it looking like that, either that or I’m just getting old and imagining things. Oh, and congrats on the 50th episode, keep up the good work guys!

For god’s sake, stop uploading the podcast with ‘Official PlayStation Blogcast’ when you started with ‘THE Official PlayStation Blogcast’. Are you trying to ruin my last.fm library? And while you’re at it, stop randomly adding it with ‘PlayStation’ as the artist tag, because there’s apparently some band with that name. The new one is fine, but I always have to check to make sure. It’s annoying.

@15: There’s more videos online, just look. I suggest you DON’T though. It ruins the experience to show too much, that’s why they didn’t show much. The game wouldn’t be the same if you saw it all coming before discovering it yourself. I’m glad it was all left vague. The later levels were awesome to encounter.

the ps3 should make it like the xbox with a party and you should be able to talk with like out being in a game like the xbox a party chat that would be AWESOME and i think ps3 is cool but to make it better consider it.